Ari Vatanen won the 1981 Acropolis Rally in the David Sutton prepared Rothmans Ford Escort MkII, in the year that he would eventually become World Champion.
Vatanen’s main rivals were the Audi quattro’s of Michele Mouton and Hannu Mikkola, who would dominate initially, but the team would end up excluded from the rally for a technical infringement [...]
